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SharePoint list Calendar double booking
- Hi!
It's better if you build a PowerApps to handling and booking the room. Reason for this is that you can't block double booking in a calender i SharePoint
There is a template you can use:
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/office-template-book-a-room-now-available/
- The Idea behind Power plattform is that your average user should be able to create an application pretty easily, I recommend you to check out what Citizen Developer is
- I don't think you've ever worked a Help Desk position. People who can barely work a keyboard can't do Automations or Power Apps. I'm not talking some multi-million dollar company with their own IT staff. I'm talking small offices and businesses. It may be an ideal solution in your brain, but not everyone is as computer savvy.
mymediahelper SharePoint cannot - and has never been able to - prevent double bookings in the calendar. That's why NicolasKheirallah suggested Power Apps. The end user might not be able to build an app, and you might not want them to, but in your IT department you've probably got people who know how to do it. I built a desk booking app in Power Apps with a SharePoint list as the backend which worked across 16 offices for 3 years, with over 30,000 bookings and it was impossible for bookings to clash. It can be done; just don't expect the SharePoint calendar to prevent clashes!
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- Yup! thats what I ended up doing, Thanks for the reply.
Rob_Elliott Yet I'm able to do it.
mymediahelper My company could never achieve it as far back as SP2010. So show how an out-of-the-box SharePoint calendar can prevent clashes - no add-ons, no 3rd party tools, just out-of-the-box.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
